ICHNEUMONIDAE 109 



Genus SPHECOPHAGA Westwood, p. 258 



vesparum burra (Cresson), changed status, Transcont. in Canad. and Transit. 

 Zones. S. vesparum vesparum occurs in Europe. Reduced to 

 subsp. rank {teste Townes and Townes, 1962, pp. 525, 526). 



Tribe CRYPTINI 

 ( = Mesostenini of Catalog) 



Revision: Townes and Townes, 1962. U. S. Natl. Mus. Bui. 216 (Pt. 3) : 

 I-VII, 1-602 (Mesostenini) 



♦Subtribe BARYCERATINA 

 Place as first subtribe of Cryptini, p. 258. 



*Genus WHYMPERIA Cameron 



Whymperia Cameron, 1903. Entomologist 36: 122. 



Type: Whymperia carinifrons Cz.me\'ox\. By monotypy. 

 *ProtocrYptus Schmiedeknecht, 1904. Opusc. Ichn., Band 2 (fasc. 6), p. 

 414. Syn (teste Towiies and Townes, 1962, p. 22). _ 



Type: Protocryptus grandis Sclimiedeknecht. Desig. by Vier- 

 eck 1914. 

 *Zamansa Viereck' 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc. 42: 647. Syn. with 

 Protocryptus by Townes, 1946, Bol. Ent. Venezolana 5 (2) : 33. 



Type : Cryptus aztecus Cresson. By monotypy and orig. desig. 



Place as first genus in subtribe Baryceratina, p. 258. 



♦tricolor Townes. Ariz. 



Whymperia tricolor Townes, 1962. In Townes and Townes, U. S. Natl. 

 Mus. Bui. 216 (Pt. 3) : 22. $. 



Genus ChristoUa Brulle, pp. 258-259 



Syn. of Baryceros Gravenhorst, infra. 



Lamprocryptidea Viereck. Delete from Catalog. A valid Neotrop. genus 



(teste Townes and Townes, 1962, p. 12). 

 Haplomus Szepligeti. Syn. of Lamprocryptidea Viereck (teste Townes 



and Townes, 1962, p. 12). 

 Aplomiana Strand. Syn. of Lamprocryptidea Viereck. 



*Genus BARYCEROS Gravenhorst 



(= ChristoUa Brulle, pp. 258-259) 



Baryceros Gravenhorst, 1829. Ichn. Europaea, v. 2, p. 777. 



Type : Baryceros guttatus Gravenhorst. By monotypy. 

 ChristoUa Brulle. (Syn., teste Townes, 1961. Ent. Soc. Wash. Proc. 63 



(3): 167.) 

 *Neochristolia Blanchard, 1936. Rev. Argentina de Ent. 1 (2) : 40. (Syn. 

 by Townes, loc. cit. supra, p. 167.) 



Type: Neochristolia eucleides Blanchard. By monotypy and 

 orig. desig. 



armatus (Provancher). Syn. of audax saundersi (Cresson). 



audax audax (Cresson), changed status. Mass., Conn., N. Y., Mich., Wis. 

 south to S. C., Ala., Kans. Reduced to subsp. rank (teste Townes 

 and Townes, 1962, pp. 27, 28). 

 *Mesostenus exaptus Cresson, 1878. Canad. Ent. 10: 208. 9. (Syn. by 

 Cushman, 1929. U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc. 74 (Art. 16) : 25.) 



audax saundersi (Cresson), changed status. Que., Ont., south to R I., N. Y., 

 Ohio, Mich. Reduced to subsp. rank (teste Townes and Townes, 

 1962, pp. 27, 29). 

 ChristoUa armata (Provancher) (syn. teste Townes, and Townes, 1962, p. 

 29). 



